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North American Megadam Resistance Alliance
Protecting rivers and their communities by resisting megadams and their transmission corridors
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  • Transmission Corridors (Maine, New York, Vermont…)
    • Maine NECEC – CMP Corridor
      • Report: NECEC and CHPE transmission corridors tied to potential for more dam construction
    • New York: TDI – CHPE Corridor
    • Vermont: TDI – NECPL Corridor
    • New Hampshire Granite State Power Link (currently on hold)
    • Vermont Green Line – on hold
    • New York Empire State Connector
    • Canada Atlantic Link
    • New Hampshire: Northern Pass (Rejected)
  • New Canadian Megadams
    • British Columbia – Site C
    • Quebec – Romaine River
    • Labrador – Muskrat Falls Project
      • Labrador – Muskrat Falls: Commission of Inquiry
        • Muskrat Falls Inquiry
    • Labrador – Gull Island/Grand River
  • Canadian Hydropower Impacts
    • What is Hydropower?
    • Climate Impacts
      • Greenhouse Gases
    • Cumulative Impacts on River Systems, Climate & Forests
    • Ecosystem Impacts
    • Indigenous Rights
      • Innu Nation of Labrador Sues Hydro-Quebec for $4 B in Hydro Damage
      • Five First Nations Oppose Hydro Exports to U.S.
      • Pessamit Innu First Nation Opposes Northern Pass Transmission Corridor
      • End of an Era: Remove Dams & Begin Truth & Reconciliation
    • Methylmercury Poisoning
    • Water Cycles
    • Hydropower is Not Renewable or Clean Energy
      • The Dark Side of Canadian hydropower Exposed in U.S. International Trade Commission Investigation
        • ITC investigation Participants
        • Tataskweyak Cree Nation Submittal to the ITC
        • Not Renewable or Clean Energy
    • Canadian Government Subsidies
    • Corporate Profits
  • Solutions
  • Resources
    • 10 Reasons Why Large Hydropower Projects are a Climate Disaster
    • Greenwashing hydropower
    • References
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  • Webinars & Events
    • Webinars
      • Virtual Film Screening: DƏNE YI’INJETL – The Scattering of Man, a film by Tsay Keh Dene Nation
      • 2021: “Megadams = Megadamage” Webinar
      • 2021: Three-part webinar series – What’s new in the campaign to save rivers and their communities?
      • 2020 COP 26 Coalition From the Ground Up: Global Gathering for Climate Justice
      • 2020: Impacts of Canadian hydropower on Indigenous communities in Canada and on Maine’s environment: Sierra Club
      • 2020: The Deals Made, The Money involved and the lack of transparency in pursuit of big hydro: Sierra Club
      • 2020: Stop the Gull Island Megadam
      • 2020: Site C Megadam – Webinar
      • New York’s CHPE/TDI corridor: social justice, climate, and New York’s pursuit of Canadian hydroelectricity – 3 parts
      • Earth Day 2020
    • In-person events
      • COP 26
      • 52nd National Day of Mourning
      • 2020 51st National Day of Mourning, Plymouth MA
      • 2020 & 2019 Conference of Northeastern Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers
        • 2019 Conference of Northeastern Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers
      • 2019 Northeast U.S. Speaking Tour
      • 2019: Ottawa: Action at International Coalition on Large Dams Annual Meeting
      • 2019 Grand Riverkeeper & Labrador Land Protectors Speaking Tour Spring 2019
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Breaking News & Updates

To view an up-to-date archive of relevant news articles, letters to the editor, press releases, and research, click here.

September 22, 2022 – 8 Benefits of Healthy, Free-Flowing Rivers

September 22, 2022 – “We are its eyes and ears”: Meet Canada’s waterkeepers 

September 17, 2022 – Legault says new hydro dam needed to meet greenhouse gas targets

September 14, 2022 – An unlikely ally in the face of wildfires and droughts: the humble beaver 

September 13, 2022 – Study shows ‘unprecedented’ changes to world’s rivers

September 13, 2022 – Register for the virtual film screening of DƏNE YI’INJETL – The Scattering of Man, a film by Tsay Keh Dene Nation

September 11, 2022 – A life with salmon depends on dam removal 

September 10, 2022 – Global Drought Saps Hydropower, Complicating Clean-Energy Push 

September 9, 2022 – Mud Lake households can get up to $270K in relocation funds to avoid future floods 

September 7, 2022 – The Largest Dam Removal in History Nears Final Approval

September 6, 2022 – ‘A beautiful lie’: BC Hydro says it will replace the wetlands Site C destroys, but experts say it’s impossible

September 6, 2022 – The world’s reservoirs are aging and belching out more methane

September 5, 2022 – Extreme Weather is Weakening U.S. Hydropower and Stressing Energy Grids 

September 4, 2022 – Letter to the editor: State supreme court disappoints voters; CMP misleads them

September 1, 2022 – Maine supreme court left big questions unanswered in CMP corridor ruling

August 31, 2022 – With corridor ruling, opponents say CMP fighting ‘tooth-and-nail’ to overturn will of voters

August 30, 2022 – Summer 2022 Newsletter

August 29, 2022 – Hydropower dams induce widespread species extinctions across Amazonian forest islands 

August 27, 2022 – China drought highlights risks of relying on “unsustainable” hydropower

August 25, 2022 – Champlain Hudson project dangerous for river life

August 24, 2022 – ‘Cursed’ dam project in orangutan habitat claims 16th life in less than 2 years. 

August 19, 2022 – China cuts power to factories, homes as reservoirs fall

August 18, 2022 – UNESCO team in Alberta to judge if Wood Buffalo Park should go on endangered list due to impacts of climate change and upstream dam developments

August 18, 2022 – Court dismissal of Xayaburi dam lawsuit highlights the need to strengthen accountability of cross-border investments 

SmugMug Gallery

Click here to view NAMRA’s SmugMug Gallery which contains photos, maps, and descriptions of major hydro-electric facilities in Canada, Indigenous and allied resistance, and NAMRA events.

NAMRA is a broad-based ad hoc alliance of groups and individuals who care about rivers, communities and climate. We are pluralistic, a clearinghouse for information, and a forum for voices from various communities on the issue of megadams and energy policy impacts on rivers and human rights. 

NAMRA is an affiliate of Save the World’s Rivers.

To learn more about NAMRA’s story, click here. 

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